What if he were black?

Just imagine that this story is about you. You live in a beautiful home
in the nicest neighborhood in town. You have a beautifully manicured lawn
with only the finest shrubs, flowers, and trees. And the grass. The grass
is so soft it feels like velvet under your feet, a beautiful green grass
covered with a light morning dew. As the rays of sunshine come through
the trees, it makes the drops of dew glisten like miniature diamonds. You
look around you and you see that not only is your lawn this beautiful, so
is every other lawn in the neighborhood. The perfect lawn in the perfect
neighborhood.

And your home. What a glorious home it is. A fourteen room house with
five bedrooms, three baths, and a huge bay window stretching across the
front. It is painted snow white and has maroon shutters. Your front door
is made of the finest hardwood and has a stained glass window. A window
so glorious that it glows with beauty. A window such as never been seen
before. As you look closer you realize that not only is there one door
but you have double doors. Two beautiful doors. Two doors standing side
by side like identical twins and on the sides of these double doors are
two more glass windows running from ceiling to floor. These windows even
more glorious than the ones on the doors. The yard and the house are like
nothing you have ever seen before.

Then you walk into the house. It is furnished with only the finest
furniture. It has plush carpet in almost every room, and stained hard
wood floors in all of the rest. You have a huge rock fireplace in the
living room a smaller rock fireplace in the den and one more in the
master bedroom. Off of the master bedroom is the master bath. This
bathroom is the largest and most beautiful bathroom you have ever seen.
It has a mirror across one wall and under the mirror is a lavatory with
gold faucets and a marble counter top that spans the length of the entire
wall. And the tub. A marble garden tub with steps leading down into it.
This bathroom smells of flowers and looks like something out of a
magazine. The kind of bathroom that most people only dream of.

You walk back through the master bedroom, down the hall, by the den,
through the kitchen, past the dining room, and finally out the side door
into the garage. As you do you take a long look at each of the rooms.
Each of them more splendid than the one before. As you walk beside your
two shiny new cars you look out the garage window and see a family moving
into the house beside you. You decide to go over right after breakfast
and welcome them to the neighborhood.

You meet you neighbor and help him, his wife and their son get settled
in. Over the next few months you really get to know your neighbors. You
find out that He is a doctor and his son is going to the local collage
studying to be a lawyer. The lady of the house is a school teacher at the
local Christian school and she and her family have started attending your
church.

You have a nineteen year old daughter. She is the perfect daughter. She
has never drank or used drugs. She goes to church regularly. You and your
wife are sitting one night beside the fire place and are talking about
her. You tell your wife that you hope that someday she meets a true
gentleman, falls in love, gets married and has you a grandchild. You
finally get tired and head off to bed.

Many months go by and your daughter has now met the neighbor's son and
gone out on many dates with him. He has been taking her to Church. They
have gone to fine restaurants. They have seen movies and taken long walks
at the park. One night she comes home after one of her dates and tells
you that she has fallen in love. She says that he has proposed and said
yes. She tells you that she and the next door neighbors son would like to
get married and asks for your blessing. The perfect neighborhood and the
perfect neighbors. This is the greatest dream come true! Your daughter
has met the perfect man. He truly adores her! He is a good Christian man!
He has a good head on his shoulders and is going to be a lawyer! He has
great parents! What more could you want?

What if this were you? What if this were your daughter? Does the story
you just read not describe the perfect man and the perfect family? Now
one final question... What if he were black?